Monthly Archives: June 2009

Co-author: Branden Gregory (more on him later) We admit that we love trademarks enough that we can pass time away with our feet propped up while running random searches on the USPTO’s database of trademark applications. Sure this time might be better … Continue reading →

For those of you who read the last post closely, yes it is true. IP Litigation From Flyover Country has jumped into Twitter and you can now access the posts through Twitter by following me @daverein. Because these are uncharted waters for me, … Continue reading →

As I read Ben Sheffner’s tweets about the Capital v. Thomas case with interest, I was struck by how quickly the jury issued its decision to award the record companies $1.92 million – about $1.7 million more than the original jury awarded. I … Continue reading →

They do things differently in Sweden. If there was an RSS feed for all the political news happening in Sweden, I think I would subscribe. I remember in college hearing that Donald Duck beat out several political parties in the Swedish elections. … Continue reading →

We at the Owners, Borrowers & Thieves 2.0 are big enough to admit to our mistakes when, after an exhaustive search, we can’t find anyone else to blame. Not finding anyone to blame other than the sheer height of the stack … Continue reading →

Forum shopping in not just for patent and securities attorneys although their shopping habits have a greater tendency to get picked up by the Wall Street Journal law bloggers. Even in the copyright world, crossing state lines to a different circuit or district court can mean the … Continue reading →